Advertising device.



J.- A. DOSSETT. ADVERTISIN DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 7. 1909.

Patented Apr. 12, 1910.

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JAMES ALBERT DOSSETT, OF PAD'UGAH, KENTUCKY.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ALBERT Dos- SETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paducah, in the county of McCracken and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Advertising Device; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to an advertising de vice and has for its object to provide a machine of this character having sprocket wheels and sprocket chains adapted to place an advertising card or block in an exposed position for a few seconds, then automatically remove the same and replace it with another block or card in a like manner, and so on until all the cards have been exposed, and then the process is repeated until the machine is stopped.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of an advertising device constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing different positions of the parts. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 6 is a perspective detail view on an enlarged scale of a portion of the apparatus. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the advertising blocks.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates the sides of the frame in which my device is mounted having a front 2 which is provided with an opening 3. Mounted in the lower portion of the frame are two shafts 1 and 5 which extend across the frame from side to side. On these shafts are mounted sprocket wheels 6 and 7, a similar wheel being mounted on each end of each shaft.

A rearwardly and upwardly disposed wheel 8 provided with a sprocket is mounted on each side of the frame, and a similar wheel 9 of smaller dimension is mounted on each side of said frame and the front portion. The wheel 9 is of similar construction as the wheel 8 with the exception that the wheel 8 is provided with a plurality of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August '7, 196B.

Patented Apr. 12, 1910.

Serial No. 511,803.

recesses 10 whereas the wheel 9 only has one recess 10.

On each side of the frame is a sprocket chain 11 which engages the wheels 6 and 7 and 8 and 9. The shaft a is provided with a crank handle 12 by which this chain is operated by the drive shaft 4:. It is to be understood that this drive shaft may be operated by hand, electricity or any other suitable form of power.

Each chain is provided with a plurality of U-shaped carriers 13 on the outer portion of which is provided a recess 14. It will be seen that when these chains are actuated that these carriers travel continuously and the recesses 14 are designed to receive the lugs 15 which extend in opposite directions from a block 16. The blocks 16 are preferably made of wood but can be made of any other suitable material and the advertising matter may be placed on these blocks or it may be printed on a card and attached to these blocks.

When the blocks are placed in the supports 13 the device is so arranged that as each block is carried upwardly, the lugs 15 engage the recesses 10 in said wheels 8 and are carried again downwardly and forwardly beyond the diamond-shaped blocks 17 which blocks17 engage the then upper but formerly the lower lugs 15*, which lift the blocks 16 out of engagement with said wheels 8 and it is carried by the diamondshaped blocks against the small wheels 9 where it remains stationary during a brief interval until it is lifted from the blocks 17 by the recesses 10 of the wheels 9 which deliver it again into the support or carrier 13 which is mounted on the sprocket chain.

l/Vhen the advertising blocks have been carried back to the beginning of their downward course they will be automatically reversed by the action of the large wheel 8. As the blocks 16 are carried by the wheel the trunnions or lugs of said blocks disposed in the recesses of the wheel 8 will pass the members 17 while the remaining trunnions or lugs will fall on to the member 17 and the blocks will slide by gravity toward the upper wheels 9, to be carried by said wheels in to connection with the endless chains 11 and again downwardly thereby with the side reversed to the side previously exposed to view shown.

It will be seen that my advertising device is capable of exposing cards or blocks to the public for a brief interval until the effect of the advertisement on the card has made an impression on the public, which card is then received by the endless carrier thus leaving another card in its place which likewise follows the same course, and so on until all cards or blocks have been thus exposed after which the operation is repeated.

What is claimed is 1. In an advertising device, endless carriers provided with supports for detachably holding advertising blocks and Wheels c0- acting with said carriers and adapted to convey advertising blocks to said holding means, and wheels co-acting with said carriers adapted to receive the said blocks therefrom and to reverse and transfer the same to the wheels first mentioned.

2. In an advertising device, an advertising block having pivot lugs arranged in sets at both ends thereof, endless carriers provided with means for detachably holding either set of said lugs, wheels having recesses therein spaced apart a greater distance than the distance between the sets of lugs on the block, said wheels being geared to the endless carriers and adapted to receive the blocks therefrom, said recesses being adapted to receive the lugs from the carriers, slides adapted to receive the other set of lugs of said block from the wheels, and wheels adapted to receive the last mentioned set of said block and carry the same into connec tion with the holding means of the endless carriers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES ALBERT DOSSETT.

Witnesses:

R. J. BARBER, F. M. MOGLATHERY. 

